Course Match

Making Reading Relevant: The Art of Connecting, 1/e

BASIC APPROACH

(Note: This textbook was published by our college division for use by students at post-secondary institutions whose writing skills are below the level needed to succeed in college English. Please review this text carefully to ensure appropriateness of content for your students.)

Making Reading Relevant: The Art of Connecting teaches students to become better, more efficient readers by exposing them to essential reading strategies with a major focus on application using "real-life" materials, or primary sources.

For several years, Quick, Hocevar, and Zimmer searched for a simple, concise text to use in their reading classes. However, they could not find a brief text that still managed to address all of the topics and issues they found they needed in order to conduct productive and meaningful courses. As well, they were unsuccessful in finding anything that stressed the application of reading strategies using primary reading sources as the basis of the content, a core idea too often sacrificed for the sake of brevity. It was then that the authors decided to collaborate and write a text to specifically fill all these needs while maintaining a simple premise: sometimes less is more. The authors find it imperative that students learn to become better, more efficient readers—and not by reading volumes on how to read, but by exposure to essential reading strategies with a major focus on application using "real-life" materials, or primary reading sources.

FEATURES

• This text addresses all reading topics necessary for success in college reading. It is intended for use in any college reading course, from college prep to higher level, within a variety of contexts.
  • Reading courses that incorporate primary reading sources such as newspapers, newsmagazines, novels, textbooks, and the Internet, or as a stand-alone text. Essential reading strategies are presented, but the choice of primary sources should be consistent with the reading level of the course.
  • Reading courses "paired" or "linked" with a content-area course
  • Online reading modules or courses
• The text and Instructor's Manual are structured to help students work through the lessons quickly and meaningfully. Each text chapter includes the following:
  • Stated objectives followed by a readiness quiz: The readiness quiz is not meant to be a true pretest; its purpose is to help gauge the prior knowledge of the students and to serve as a bridge into the chapter.
  • Learning strategies with featured "QUICK Tips" to highlight some of the more important strategies
  • Practices using a variety of concise "real-life" content within the text (examples, pp. 68, 95, 120)
  • Suggested learning activities
  • For extended practice and/or post testing, the learning activities, as well as the quick chapter check-up quizzes in the Instructor's Manual (IM), may be used. The IM also includes ideas for teaching the text strategies. A companion Web site will also be available.

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